Spitball Army

Can you imagine actually trying to “balance the books” while spinning around on this thing? If you were writing down numbers they would most likely look like this: WWWWWWWWWWWW. What an unusual way to market a, um, device that, um, stimulates the, uh,…

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It used to be that I went straight to the Arts & Leisure section, then the Weekend section, then the front section, landing eventually in the Magazine. There I would tear out the crossword puzzle – which I collected to send to my mother, who is a crossword fiend – and work my way through the articles. Lately, I find that Randy Cohen’s column, The Ethicist, has become the first thing I turn to after ripping the plastic bag off of the paper. Yes, even before Arts & Leisure.

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Amy Winehouse will not attend this year’s Grammy Awards because her request for a visa was denied, but she will perform by satellite at Sunday’s ceremony in Los Angeles.

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This afternoon I trekked to the cinema to see There Will Be Blood, and must say that I don’t recall ever seeing a performance so flamboyant and scenery-chewing, yet so absolutely incredibly human, as Daniel Day Lewis in the role of Daniel Plainview. Imagine Orson Welles (as Charles Foster Kane) and James Dean (as Jett Rink) being channeled by John Huston and you will have an idea of what to expect – if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know what I’m getting at.

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I love how the Obama Baby rolls his R when he says “Rrrrrrrudy.”

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I was voter number 7 in line, so I was able to cast my “gender” vote quickly. There were two ballot boxes at the school where I vote, and one of them was down (it was sitting there like an abandoned R2D2, emitting an electronic beeping sound every few seconds). If they don’t get that baby fixed, they are going to have one hellish day come lunchtime or after work.

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Damn! I missed it…the Josh Ritter Live at the Artists’ Den already aired on Ovation. If, like me, you missed it, it will re-air on February 21st. Here’s a clip (courtesy of ovationtv.com):

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I nearly hit the floor when my friend Ben gave me this painstakingly and lovingly made reconstruction of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, as a farewell tribute to my teenage record store, who has flown the nest after 16 and a half years.

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k.d. lang’s Watershed, Cat Power’s Jukebox, and Curt Perkins’ Get Something Started

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This set list was nabbed after a Josh Rouse concert at Birmingham’s Workplay Theatre in October 2003.  I tried to determine the date online, but both Josh’s site and the Workplay site do not have archives going back that far.  Band member Daniel Tashian’s blog started up in January 2004, so there is no mention of […]

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